[perl #8979] "Ambiguous use" isn't

Still happens on 5.12.0

On Sun Apr 21 16:03:07 2002, mjd@plover.com wrote:

>         use constant PI => 3;
>         $s = somefunction()-PI/2;
> 
> this produces:
> 
>         Ambiguous use of -PI resolved as -&PI() at /tmp/w line 2.
> 
> However, it's not ambiguous, since the alternative parse,
> 
>         $s = somefunction()"-PI"/2;
> 
> is meaningless.  So the warning is spurious.
> 
> The problem persists in 5.7.3 and bleadperl.

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Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net

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